Just five days after President Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., the Springfield City Council voted unanimously to spend $20,000 to help defray the cost of his funeral back in his hometown.

The original handwritten record of that vote and three others related to preparations for the 16th president’s funeral are documented in a bound volume stored safely in the city clerk’s vault. The clerk’s office on Thursday presented digital reproductions of the records to the 2015 Lincoln Funeral Coalition, which is planning a re-enactment next year to mark the 150th anniversary of the funeral.

“I thought it would only be fitting, with the 150th anniversary of the funeral coming up, that we reproduce these ordinances and give them to the Lincoln Funeral Coalition as a gift from the city clerk’s office,” Deputy Clerk Rianne Hawkins said at a news conference in the city council chamber.

In addition to the April 19, 1865, ordinance authorizing the expenditure of $20,000 — the equivalent of about $300,000 today — the council on April 24 approved resolutions offering 218 acres adjacent to Oak Ridge Cemetery for Lincoln’s burial, authorizing the mayor to appoint a committee to help “procure suitable quarters for the escort attending the remains of the late President Lincoln from Washington,” and authorizing the council to issue permits to “control the erection of booths for the sales of food during President Lincoln’s funeral.”

Not all of the measures were met with unanimous approval, Hawkins said, noting that four council members voted against the resolution offering land.

“They didn’t do minutes like we do now, unfortunately, so we don’t know, for example, why the four aldermen voted against donating the land,” she said.

Hawkins found the records shortly after joining the clerk’s office in 2011 by looking through council records from the time period around Lincoln’s assassination and funeral.

The Papers of Abraham Lincoln project at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum made digital copies of the records at no cost to the city.

Katie Spindell, chair of the funeral coalition, said the group is grateful for the donation.

“One of the things I’d like to see done is for us to display them at some of our events,” she said.

Digital copies also are being given to the Ford’s Theatre Society for its interactive website and exhibit commemorating the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s death.

James Cornelius, curator of the Abraham Lincoln Collection at the presidential library and museum, said that donation will draw attention to Springfield.

“Having the Lincoln material from Springfield on view, known to everybody in Washington, is going to bring national attention to what you’ve saved here and what we’re trying to do for this city as part of this project,” said Cornelius, who also serves on the coalition’s board.

The coalition is planning at full-scale re-enactment of Lincoln’s funeral May 2-3, 2015, in Springfield. For more information, visit lincolnfuneraltrain.org.